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In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.- Natan Sharansky

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion,dissent, and debate.- Hubert H. Humphrey

It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issuesif there is some dissent,some conflict.- Mo Rocca

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soonfind themselves exterminating dissenters.Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only theunanimity of the graveyard.- Robert Jackson

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can imposeits will on the majority:what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.- Eric Hoffer

It's so easy for propaganda to work,and dissent to be mocked.- Harold Pinter

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth.Stifle dissent and you end that journey.- John Charles Polanyi

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith.Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste,but in its effects.- James W. Fulbright

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.- Learned Hand

When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views,there is no law compelling him to provoke animosityby announcing his dissent.- George Henry Lewes

Neither with those nor with the others,with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truthand part of error must be seen.- Michael Servetus

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.When the loyal opposition dies,I think the soul of America dies with it.- Edward R. Murrow

Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.- Natan Sharansky

Discussion in America means dissent.- James Thurber

Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that questionwill determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.- Natan Sharansky

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent?Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.- Jacob Bronowski

The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.- Friedrich Durrenmatt

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.- Dwight D. Eisenhower

People may believe that there can be a society wheredissent is not permitted,but which is nonetheless not a fear society becauseeveryone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.- Natan Sharansky

So now is the time, more than ever, for those who trulyvalue all the principles of democracy,especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up,standing up and speaking out.- Jim Hightower

Dissent is the native activity of the scientist,and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years.But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist.And I doubt whether it will be a man.- Jacob Bronowski

There are men - now in power in this country -who do not respect dissent,who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe thatthe people of America are ready to support repressionas long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit.- John Lindsay

Throughout the lead-up to the war, CNN worked hardto air all sides of the story.We had a regular segment called Voices of Dissent inwhich we spent time covering antiwar protests and interviewingthose who were opposed to the war with Iraq.- Jim Walton

The corporate grip on opinion in the United Statesis one of the wonders of the Western world.No First World country has ever managed to eliminateso entirely from its media all objectivity -much less dissent.- Gore Vidal

Down through the centuries, this trick has been triedby various establishments throughout the world.They force people to get involved in the kind of examinationthat has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.- Pete Seeger

Here in America we are descended in bloodand in spirit from revolutionists and rebels.Men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine.As their heirs, may we never confusehonest dissent with disloyal subversion.- Dwight D. Eisenhower

I used to feel so shy speaking to girls.It was even worse when they were around their crewbecause they would diss me.- Chris Brown

Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law,to the intelligence of another day.- Charles Evans Hughes

Dissents speak to a future age.- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writingnot for today but for tomorrow.- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician whois not born and bred a Dissenter.- William Hazlitt

The dissenter is every human being at those momentsof his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.- Archibald MacLeish

In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.- Charles Evans Hughes

I'm always dissing Ray and making fun of him,talking about his money.- Patricia Heaton

You can't come out on a record dissing the system andbe on a label that's connected to the system.- Ice T

When you walk away from a really wonderful job like that,you start messing with everyone's priorities.It's like you're dissing them.- Sherry Stringfield

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from.But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white,I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there.I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.- Eminem

Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaimingits wares and their merits,and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed.The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.- David Ogilvy

I do get angry some time, but if I let that feelingtake over it would only cloud my thinking and disableme from making the right decision when it counts the most.I just try to think about my mother,children,God, and of course my freedom.- Lonnie Earl Johnson

The hunger for love ismuch more difficult to removethan the hunger for bread.- Mother Teresa

With a penetrating visionyou can dissipate the obstruction,remove the obstacle,dissolve the wrong condition.- Ernest Holmes

You create stress in your life by getting angry,and you can instantly removethat stress by granting forgiveness.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are nine requisites for contented living:HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure;WEALTH enough to support your needs;STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them;GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them;PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished;CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor;LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others;FAITH enough to make real the things of God;HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do not use a hatchet to removea fly from your friend's forehead.- Chinese Proverb

Truth is by nature self-evident.As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorancethat surround it, it shines clear.- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter,taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn.The Republicans are the party that says governmentdoesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.- P. J. O'Rourke

Whether one eats a cat or not is a personal choice,and I don't want to sway anyone one way or another.But if you do, there is one obvious cooking tip:Always remember to remove the bell from the cat's collar before cooking.- Mike Royko

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply,and a swipe of demaquillage in the right directionand you are you once again.- Margaret Cho

It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little;a great deal may rouse you to remove what a littlewill only accustom you to endure.- Grenville Kleiser

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool,than to speak and remove all doubt.- sometimes attributed to Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, or Samuel Johnson

When you remove the risk, you remove the challenge.When you remove the challenge, you wither on the vine.- Alex Lowe

If we remove ourselves from the world,we are pretending that we can follow our own individualenlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell,so to speak.- Satish Kumar

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fearas potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow,free and open, across international boundaries.- Harry S. Truman

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.- William Penn

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war,by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them,by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.- Neville Chamberlain

Before Huey was 5, I could take him to work with me.Now, though, he has sports and lessons and friends,and it's not fair to remove him from his whole life.- Marg Helgenberger

In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at along remove above the ordinary love and trustfulnessof a simple and pure heart.- Donald G. Mitchell

This war in Iraq is part of a larger effort to removethis terrorist threat from the planet.- Paul Cellucci

I'm convinced that unless you have some public financing of elections,you are never going to remove the power of wealthyinterests over elected officials.- Dick Murphy

There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques ormonuments all over the country,and lawsuits to remove them have popped up in more than a dozen states.- Phyllis Schlafly

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes longenough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.- Robert Green Ingersoll

Writing can sometimes be exploitative.I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respectthe privacy of the subject.If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem.- John Barton

A great deal of pressure was then built up to removeme from the club and my resignation was,finally, a forced one.- David R. Brower

And one of our points of continuing conversation withour trading partners is the urgency of their takingsteps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance.- John W. Snow

To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.- Ann Plato

Be careful that what you write does not offend anybodyor cause problems within the company.The safest approach is to remove all useful information.- Scott Adams

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt,so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth,unless it finds it by the method of experiment.- Roger Bacon

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